How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance

  • AssaultPepper
    17•2 years ago

    Great read, warnings like this should be added to the conversation as long as federation with Meta is brought up. Especially for non-technical users or new users who haven’t seen embrace, extend, extinguish before we will need some way to let them know what is on the other end of federating with large companies.

    Sadly that’s exactly who Meta wants, is people who don’t care about the underlying system and they I’m sure will spend much more convincing those users that federation with Meta is a good thing.